And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

We say it is idealistic to think we can continue to live the way we live - with 5% of the world using half the world's resources, with $20,000 a second being spent on war.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

It's always a good idea to have a nun next to you when you get arrested!

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.